Give yourself enough time to switch to pedal power
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Woah.. with that nifty thing, rig up a pedal powered system to pick up where the ups stops-- for those Rolling blackouts you just get your employees to move from their desks to their designated stationary bicycle.
Who'da thunk it? -- an employee fitness program and disaster contingency program all in one!
Essentially all the computers using this "card" to communicate with the world wild web rely on firmware to be up to date and invulnerable to attacks. Not only does the card become the firewall, controlling which network services are available, it also becomes the ultimate "sitting duck" described in the article. According to the article, each client can decide how often it's ip should change and which network services it will serve. It would follow that an attacker could compromise the card by masquerading as one of the clients and actually ghost the entire website.
therefore, an exclusive right to distribute and/or license its design seems appropriate.
I agree with you that this is definitely an innovation that deserves some recognition. However, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "appropriate". Just because it's not software does not mean that a patent that ensures "exclusive right ot distribute" is good. I believe that open hardware is just as important -- the same sort of advances that are possible in a software world free of patents are also possible in a hardware world free of patents.
A screenshot (for lack of a better term) would be nice, to at least show some examples of this technology in action. So far we've got the diagrams, and some pictores of the lcd screen -- but they left the damn thing turned OFF! What are they hiding?
Overclocking is an end in itself. There's not much to be gained that can't be gained through a few bucks well spent, particularly if you factor in the overhead that is involved when setting up that water cooling rig. Extra parts, setup time, hardware failure when screwups happen(not to mention shortened hardware lifespan and bye bye warranty). The same can be said for monitoring the cooling system designed for this purpose. Trollish as it may sound, overclocking doesn't get you anywhere and is a waste of time.
But, fed up to the teeth with complaints of hacking, credit card misuse, death threats, pornography,
morphing and terrorism, the police and internet administrators are taking a tough line.
(emphasis mine)
What the heck is this evil crime called morphing? Does this mean they can't do digital animation online?
Anyone can enter a cyber cafe without any registration and send threats of murder and extortion or porn mail without being caught[...]
We happen to be faced with the same problem in other countries. While I don't agree with the implimentation, and would rather see cyber-cafe's merely record an id number taken from already existing identification (drivers license,birth certificate,etc), the basic idea behind it is sound. People need to be held accountable for their actions.
Anonymity is important to preserve, and can still be preserved. I'm not sure what criteria they're going to to implement, but something as simple as requiring a search warrant (an already existing mechanism to prevent abuse of police power) for the release of the records is sufficient to protect us from those who would carry on illegal activities online.
Bringing them into the spotlight took away what made them special. They were no longer 3 social misfits with some tech know-how who'd stumbled on some secret fbi stuff. The whole reason people liked them to start off with was that they _weren't_ the center of attention. Who understands nerds as the protagonists of a show? Unless it's satire, like in Revenge of the nerds it's just not accepted.
Just like things have been compared to Star wars for so many years, Toy Story 2 kind of stands out in the animation industry as something that you end up getting compared to. It's not a matter of pitting them against the movie, but more of a tribute to how amazing Toy Story 2 was in it's day.
It's really not so outlandish. That's the whole thing -- free software lets you do that if you like. Not only that, we'll probably _have_ to strip out the Eazel logo, given that the Eazel mark will likely be passed on to another unrelated company that would have to give permission for the use of that logo.
Open source was not spawned from money nor will it die if the money is taken away. Open source is a result of a collaborative effort of many people working towards a common good -- something you can't buy, plain and simple.
Nautilus is "owned" by it's copyright holders and it's licensed under the GPL when it is distributed. So even if the copyright owner were to be Eazel, and that copyright were to be assigned to another entity in the process of paying off creditors, the existing code would still be free -- just not free to be relicensed without the copyright holder's approval.
If we were all to read posts that congratulate eachother on how amazing they are, and if all responses to articles would point out how much they like Linux and how it's the best thing since sliced bread, we'd wouldn't be having much of a discussion. Instead, we'd have a mutual admiration society.
Geeze -- to think that people would confuse fuckgeneralmotors.com as a domain name owned by general motors, and to further still describe Ford's actions as "reasonable".....hey wwaaaaitasec here.... I've been gobbled up by the ford troll!
I was visited by a little green man last night who promised to tell me all the secrets of the universe for a buck and a quarter. I told him all I had was two bits, to which he replied that he'd only be able to tell me why our space probes aren't sticking to their projected paths. I took note of his advice, but can't say that I believed much of what he told me. I was just about to shred the notes that I took, lest they be discovered in my posession and I be taken for a lunatic, possibly even a danger to our society as we know it. I will have to weigh further what to do with this transcripts,.... damn, I spilled coffee all over them!..nevermind.
The problem with NASA's calculations is that they all involve objects in space that are either drifting or in some sort of orbit,etc -- but they haven't taken into account other space craft that would be wizzing by along the way. In fact, if one of our little probes were to pass close enough to a large transport, it may well get slingshotted not just out of it's course path, but to places completely unfathomed by our dear NASA engineers.
I think that by no longer offering this free service, IBM has given everyone a "heads up" on the fact that it really was an "amazing free service" that they were providing. The other thing is that IBM is being responsible to it's shareholders by cutting back on excess costs incurred by providing a service that is already provided for free by the us patent office as already pointed out by countless posts above.
I'm glad to see repeated stories now providing links to their predecessors, to show that repeated themes are not an accident but quite on purpose.
What does not impress, however, is the recent rash of articles that are about other articles on slashdot (yes, there's a difference). And last, but not least, I'm so damned pissed off about posts about articles... Doh! -- waittasec here.... must drink more beer!
What we all should _really_ be amazed about is that Microsoft is actually getting around to admitting to this. An IIS backdoor is really not that surprising of a thing on it's own. The only difference between a regular IIS bug and a IIS backdoor is that one was put there on purpose and the other was left there through carelessness.
Freedom is too important to mess with in this way. It's a dirty tactic to use, and isn't even remotely in line with general free software ideals, which is to give freedom to the user. Tring to force someone to use your software is a commercial tactic employed by companies who want to retain a chokehold on their customers.
If you want to attract users to a particular platform, let it be on merit alone, not through cohersion.
While I acknowledge the value of comparing one system's technical merits to the other, particularly in a forum of people who (I hope) won't turn into mindless bigots who support system X or system Y of doing things, I also see how presenting this as something we need to "choose" is a bad thing. We should focus on inter-operation, compatibility, and when reviewing the qualities of other systems, to do so in an open-minded fashion -- to learn from others' triumphs as well as mistakes.
"good" competition is important, but bickering about who's better isn't competition.
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Who'da thunk it? -- an employee fitness program and disaster contingency program all in one!
Essentially all the computers using this "card" to communicate with the world wild web rely on firmware to be up to date and invulnerable to attacks. Not only does the card become the firewall, controlling which network services are available, it also becomes the ultimate "sitting duck" described in the article. According to the article, each client can decide how often it's ip should change and which network services it will serve. It would follow that an attacker could compromise the card by masquerading as one of the clients and actually ghost the entire website.
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A waterproof/foodproof keyboard -- been done
- A keyboard that rolls up -- been done
On top of that it's cumbersome to use, you have to push the keys extra hard to make them work, making it anything but ergonomic.I agree with you that this is definitely an innovation that deserves some recognition. However, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "appropriate". Just because it's not software does not mean that a patent that ensures "exclusive right ot distribute" is good. I believe that open hardware is just as important -- the same sort of advances that are possible in a software world free of patents are also possible in a hardware world free of patents.
A screenshot (for lack of a better term) would be nice, to at least show some examples of this technology in action. So far we've got the diagrams, and some pictores of the lcd screen -- but they left the damn thing turned OFF! What are they hiding?
Overclocking is an end in itself. There's not much to be gained that can't be gained through a few bucks well spent, particularly if you factor in the overhead that is involved when setting up that water cooling rig. Extra parts, setup time, hardware failure when screwups happen(not to mention shortened hardware lifespan and bye bye warranty). The same can be said for monitoring the cooling system designed for this purpose. Trollish as it may sound, overclocking doesn't get you anywhere and is a waste of time.
What the heck is this evil crime called morphing? Does this mean they can't do digital animation online?
Anonymity is important to preserve, and can still be preserved. I'm not sure what criteria they're going to to implement, but something as simple as requiring a search warrant (an already existing mechanism to prevent abuse of police power) for the release of the records is sufficient to protect us from those who would carry on illegal activities online.
Bringing them into the spotlight took away what made them special. They were no longer 3 social misfits with some tech know-how who'd stumbled on some secret fbi stuff. The whole reason people liked them to start off with was that they _weren't_ the center of attention. Who understands nerds as the protagonists of a show? Unless it's satire, like in Revenge of the nerds it's just not accepted.
Just like things have been compared to Star wars for so many years, Toy Story 2 kind of stands out in the animation industry as something that you end up getting compared to. It's not a matter of pitting them against the movie, but more of a tribute to how amazing Toy Story 2 was in it's day.
It's really not so outlandish. That's the whole thing -- free software lets you do that if you like. Not only that, we'll probably _have_ to strip out the Eazel logo, given that the Eazel mark will likely be passed on to another unrelated company that would have to give permission for the use of that logo.
Nautilus is "owned" by it's copyright holders and it's licensed under the GPL when it is distributed. So even if the copyright owner were to be Eazel, and that copyright were to be assigned to another entity in the process of paying off creditors, the existing code would still be free -- just not free to be relicensed without the copyright holder's approval.
If we were all to read posts that congratulate eachother on how amazing they are, and if all responses to articles would point out how much they like Linux and how it's the best thing since sliced bread, we'd wouldn't be having much of a discussion. Instead, we'd have a mutual admiration society.
Geeze -- to think that people would confuse fuckgeneralmotors.com as a domain name owned by general motors, and to further still describe Ford's actions as "reasonable"... ..hey wwaaaaitasec here.... I've been gobbled up by the ford troll!
... then copyright everything in existence and demand that royalties be paid to you. Imagine what sealand could do with this!
I was visited by a little green man last night who promised to tell me all the secrets of the universe for a buck and a quarter. I told him all I had was two bits, to which he replied that he'd only be able to tell me why our space probes aren't sticking to their projected paths. I took note of his advice, but can't say that I believed much of what he told me. I was just about to shred the notes that I took, lest they be discovered in my posession and I be taken for a lunatic, possibly even a danger to our society as we know it. I will have to weigh further what to do with this transcripts, .... damn, I spilled coffee all over them! ..nevermind.
The problem with NASA's calculations is that they all involve objects in space that are either drifting or in some sort of orbit,etc -- but they haven't taken into account other space craft that would be wizzing by along the way. In fact, if one of our little probes were to pass close enough to a large transport, it may well get slingshotted not just out of it's course path, but to places completely unfathomed by our dear NASA engineers.
I think that by no longer offering this free service, IBM has given everyone a "heads up" on the fact that it really was an "amazing free service" that they were providing. The other thing is that IBM is being responsible to it's shareholders by cutting back on excess costs incurred by providing a service that is already provided for free by the us patent office as already pointed out by countless posts above.
What does not impress, however, is the recent rash of articles that are about other articles on slashdot (yes, there's a difference). And last, but not least, I'm so damned pissed off about posts about articles ... Doh! -- waittasec here .... must drink more beer!
What we all should _really_ be amazed about is that Microsoft is actually getting around to admitting to this. An IIS backdoor is really not that surprising of a thing on it's own. The only difference between a regular IIS bug and a IIS backdoor is that one was put there on purpose and the other was left there through carelessness.
I'm guessing that we mean before it's inserted into the cdrom drive.
Be careful! start quoting the text of that court case and you might be violatingn a copyright!
If you want to attract users to a particular platform, let it be on merit alone, not through cohersion.
We should focus on inter-operation, compatibility, and when reviewing the qualities of other systems, to do so in an open-minded fashion -- to learn from others' triumphs as well as mistakes.
"good" competition is important, but bickering about who's better isn't competition.